RETREAT Week with Ray Cousins
Welcome to a beautiful location to slow down, read and listen to what this remarkable book, the Bible has to say to us as individuals in 2024. In reading and discussion and time alone we want to help you discover more of who Jesus is, and to help where we can for you to know Him more.
The devotions this year are based on 2 Peter 1:19. … “and we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.”
Ray Cousins will lead a one hour session to begin the days looking into one passage each day from different prophets, thinking about what light they are seeking to show us. These sessions will have plenty of time for questions/interaction. Ray will be available for further discussion for those who would value that. The rest of your time is free to use as you see fit.
While our Bible School students are in morning lectures you have the run of our gardens, lounges, library and estate. Our bookshop will be open for additional resources if required. Evening lectures will add to your devotional season through the week.
ART OPTION WITH RACHEL COUSINS
We will use the gardens of surrounding the Hall as a starting point for concentrated looking, and a subject matter to respond to. We will work using pencil, ink, and water-based paint in a sketchbook. We will be experimenting with ways of recording what we see, as well as incorporating text into our work.
This week is a stand-alone programme but will work very well together with our “Art Week“, allowing for a longer time to explore the subject matter and ways of working.
The workshop will be led by Rachel Cousins who worked as a gardener before becoming an artist. Rachel is intrigued by the marks she can make on the canvas or paper which create visual gardens, recording what is seen and felt, with every application of paint creating new possibilities. For Rachel, the garden speaks of life and death, nurture and decay, chance and intentionality, beauty, and mundanity, but most of all hope.
